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Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.

Robert Henri

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Robert Henri
Age: 64 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 24
Died: 1929
Died: July 12
Artist
Painter
Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Earle Henri
Robert Henry Cozad
Robert Earl Henri
Henri
Robert Cozad Henri
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The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish, and spirits must flow. There must be courage. There are no easy ruts to get into which lead to happiness. A man must become interesting to himself and must become actually expressive before he can be happy.
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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.
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The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay.
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Do not expect pictures to say the expected some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you.
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Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.
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Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.
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The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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Manet did not do the expected. He was a pioneer. He followed his individual whim. Told the public what he wanted it to know, not the time worn things the public already knew and thought it wanted to hear again. The public was very much offended.
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Do whatever you do intensely.
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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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Beauty is no material thing. Beauty cannot be copied. Beauty is the sensation of pleasure on the mind of the seer. No thing is beautiful. But all things await the sensitive and imaginative mind that may be aroused to pleasurable emotion at sight of them. This is beauty.
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It's a wrong idea that a master is a finished person. Masters are very faulty they haven't learned everything and they know it.
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Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.
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To be free, to be happy and to be fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things.
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Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
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Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
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Today must not be a souvenir of yesterday, and so the struggle is everlasting. Who am I today? What do I see today? How shall I use what I know, and how shall I avoid being victim of what I know? Life is not repetition.
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You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.
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